Top 235 Peers Quotes

I’m so honored that there are people, peers, that I’m inspired by and looked up to for years and actually want me to do my thing with them. It’s quite the honor, and it’s been wonderful to see everybody’s fan base kind of melting together.

It’s rather like attending a university seminar where you are talking to a few gifted specialists who deliver a paper to an audience of their peers. That’s one way of making music.

I don’t know of a filmmaker who does not feel buoyed and lifted when their peers embrace the work.

Many of my 20- and 30-something peers struggle with student loan debt and high rent, and more than once, I’ve erupted in laughter at the idea that I will collect any Social Security in my Betty White years.

I had said before that I’d never write an autobiography because I’ve been around, and there’s a lot that I’ve seen and heard that stays with me. That’s just mine. I didn’t want to do a kiss-and-tell, as some of my peers have.

During the time that my recording career seemed to be in a slump a music called disco came on the scene and literally took over radio stations as well as having radio stations created to play it which sort of negated my music as well as that of some of my peers.

All of my peers were becoming bajillionaires. There was no one from college left in the temp force.

There certainly was a time when I started when people looked at me as the secretary to Dr. Buss. Being the boss’ daughter amongst your peers, you gotta show up every day.

Hanson has rapid female fans, which I’m completely proud of, but a lot of fans are a contingent that have grown up with us really – our peers. There’s younger fans. More and more guys are Hanson fans, musicians or kind of guys who were into a Beatles record.

In the realness categories, what happens is you walk and your peers judge you, because if you’re not able to walk amongst your peers and pass as being cis male or cis female, then it’s obvious that you haven’t done enough work. They wanted you to be able to go outside and come back home safely.

I think my advice to other actors would be to get in classes. Get out in front of people. Put up scenes in front of your peers.

I don’t have an acting coach, but the closest thing I have would be some of my peers that are my close friends. We bounce ideas off each other and help one another run our lines all the time.

I certainly like working harder than a lot of my peers. The trick is embracing it.

All of my peers died of AIDS, and I have no one to celebrate my past or my journey, or to help me pass down stories to the next generation. We lost an entire generation of storytellers with HIV.

I don’t really get nervous in front of people. I kind of walk into every situation like I’m walking in to meet my peers, and they either like me or not.

I have worked for a lot of really great leaders and mentors that I felt provided me, along with many of my peers – many of them women – opportunities.

It’s a great feeling to be recognized by your peers. It’s an even better feeling to be welcomed and accepted by country radio and its listeners. If desire is any part of this equation, then I’m a contender!

When I finally got the chance to do ‘The People v. O.J. Simpson,’ my peers embraced me with the same attitude. They didn’t make me feel small or insignificant. They treated me as a peer. It was a wonderful experience.

Let’s remember the children who come from broken homes, surrounded by crime, drugs, temptation, their peers having babies out of wedlock, but who still manage to get a good education despite the many obstacles they face every day.

I’m probably an average hitter, at least, and if you talk to my peers, they will tell you that I hit the ball plenty far enough.

That was the lowest point in my entire life: The shellshock of not being in the NBA. All my peers are playing and I’m not because of boneheaded mistakes.

Now, I don’t know about my peers, but I get nervous – okay, I genuinely freak out – when an actor starts trying on a Southern accent. That’s for Brits trying to find the easiest way to sound American.

I’ve always looked for my affirmation through my peers, the people I race against, and within my team.

Especially with women in music there is this unnecessary competitive element. And, like, why? Why do people do things where they try to put peers up against each other?

My peers and colleagues inspire me.

I look around at my peers, and I’m so blown away by their talent and their beauty and their cool style, as well as their ability to be an actress and be a movie star and be good at it. I mean, they’re so good, and we’re all trying to get the same parts.

I find that when I come upon something that I think is a historical revelation, I have the sort of adrenaline rush that I imagine a gambler gets in Las Vegas when he hits the jackpot. It’s still tremendously exciting to me, and I think all of my peers in the business feel the same way.

My mother grew up strong. She was a charismatic leader among her peers, staging plays, organizing projects, raising money for charity; she was fiercely protective of her younger brother, with whom she shared a passion for jazz and rock and roll.

I had a great high-school experience. I had a lot of friends that I’m still really good friends with, but there’s always times where a group can’t understand what the individual is experiencing, or you’re going through something at home that you can’t bring to school and have a total understanding among your peers.

The value of a scientific publication goes beyond this simple benefit, of all relevant information appearing, unambiguously, in one place. It’s also a way to communicate your ideas to your scientific peers, and invite them to express an informed view.

When I’m hiring leaders, I pay a lot of attention to what their peers and what people who report to them say about them. We want people who relate well with their peers and cooperate in an exchange of information rather than being overly competitive.

The problem with my peers is they don’t understand television. You have to work within the confines of what executives will allow you to put on TV. Otherwise, we’ve not done anything, we’ve not really struggled to change the culture at all.

The machine of awards season is very stressful. But this is the Oscars! It’s your peers, your heroes, people you admire, the people who inspired you to get into this work in the first place. It’s a pretty overwhelming feeling when you think about it.

When you work for a company you always, well I know, I try to give advice to young kids and other peers that when you work for a company you just don’t want to be an employee, you want to be an asset.

I have been that actor who’s watched peers and thought, ‘God, they’re doing well. I’ll never get there.’

Listen to clients, employees, and peers and stay open to their ideas, feedback, and answers. Doing so is vital to the success of any leader.

If I had been censured every time I have run my ship, or fleets under my command, into great danger, I should have long ago been out of the Service and never in the House of Peers.

I get what it feels like to watch some of your peers pass you in a field that you’re in.

It means a lot when your peers see your improvement.

I hope I did it the way my peers did it before me. I didn’t do anything but try to play hard.

I enjoy talking with my male friends, but a lot of them are not actors. If I’m talking to my peers, I wouldn’t give out information that would be perceived as a sign of weakness.

I will not change what I am for no amount of money or just kudos for my peers.

One of the challenges of being a director is often you don’t get to work with your peers. You know, writers can write together, and as a director you get to work with so many wonderful actors and writers and designers. But it’s pretty rare that you get a chance to partner in that way with another director.

Unfortunately, inner feelings and potential are often stunted by our parents, relatives or peers.

To be recognized and accepted by my musical peers is truly an honor.

I trust my recovering peers completely. I’ll occasionally look sideways at them because they’re addicts but it would break my heart and surprise me to find out that any of these people were lying. Still, addiction is cunning and baffling and you never know.

The biggest neurological turn-on for people is other people. This is what really excites us. In reward terms, it’s not money; it’s not being given cash – that’s nice – it’s doing stuff with our peers, watching us, collaborating with us.

Making my family, friends, and close peers proud of me is the most important thing.

I remember, at the Oscars in 1991, ‘Dances with Wolves’ won that year, and we were nominated for ‘Goodfellas.’ One of my peers said to me, ‘Why’d you make that bad jump cut?’ I said, ‘Which one? We had about 20 in the film!’ He was really upset about it.

African American students have less access to algebra and more access to seclusion and restraint than do their white peers. The significant disparity in educational resources has caused this problem of disparate discipline and disparate academic outcomes.

It’s easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just pay attention. I had a good ear, so I realized that printed music was just about reminding you what to play.